For emotion alone it is justifiably one of the most
popular operas of all time.

Director Elijah Moshinsky’s compelling production gets to the heart of the opera’s
themes of love and death with pathos and power.

The organic structure and melodic beauty of the score achieves aching tenderness
and fragility when Alfredo embraces the dying Violetta, and she sings, ‘Gran
Dio! Morir si giovine’: (‘O God, to die so young’).

Starring the radiant Emma Matthews as Violetta, exciting Polish tenor Arnold Rutkowski,
who hands over the role of Alfredo to rising Australian tenor Martin Buckingham later
in the season, and the outstanding baritone José Carbó as Giorgio, affirms
the intimacy and grandeur of vintage opera. Komische Oper’s music director Patrick
Lange conducts.